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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:34:47
Message-Id: 55219C55.80209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status by Rich Freeman
1 On 04/05/2015 08:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:35 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> You are ranting at the wrong place. If you want to make a difference,
5 >> take this to the openbsd mailing lists.
6 >>
7 >
8 > It seems unlikely that this would make much of a difference.
9
10 It doesn't make one here.
11
12 > I think
13 > that allowing this package to create another ffmpeg vs libav mess is a
14 > mistake.
15 >
16
17 If you want to do some crazy downstream hackery, you'll have to do that
18 yourself and count me out. It's not even clear what you want to fix.
19
20 It was known from the start that we do not have ABI-compatibility.
21
22 The only "problem" right now are libressl-exclusive features. These are
23 currently optional codepaths afais, so packages still compile with openssl.
24
25 Everything else is future prediction. That's why libressl is still in an
26 overlay.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] libressl status "Jason A. Donenfeld" <zx2c4@g.o>